Okotie Rejects Sanwo-Olu’s Guidelines On Reopening Worship Centres

Rev. Chris Okotie

LAGOS – Pastor of the Household of God Church, Oregun, Lagos, Rev Chris Okotie has rejected the latest guidelines issued by the Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu for the reopening of worship centres.

In a statement released in Lagos yesterday, he described the guidelines as an ‘abomina­tion of desolation’.

He further vowed, “Our doors will remain closed until these profanation and seculari­sation have been pulverised by the Emperor of heaven.”

It would be recalled that on Thursday, June 4, Governor Sanwo-Olu rolled out new guidelines for the reopening of worship centres, which re­stricted church attendance to 500 members. He also stipulat­ed that worshippers who are 65 and above and below 15 years of age cannot attend. The mea­sures, according to the Gover­nor, is to control the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.

However, Rev. Okotie, who had last Monday, in a widely published statement, lashed out at CAN for proposing sim­ilar guidelines, said Govern­ment cannot reorder worship in the house of God.

The statement reads, “Be­loved, yesterday, the abomina­tion of desolation took a giant step towards standing in the holy place. Fulfilment of Bible prophecy is being accelerated by the forces of Janes and Jambres. 

"To reorder temple worship is to deny God the divine prerogative of congre­gational adoration and the holy genuflects of the saints in light. Let no man’s heart be troubled by the vengeance of satanic antagonism. Dagon the god of the Philistines fell in obeisance before the Ark of God. 

"Coronavirus, the god of secular humanism will be de­capitated in like manner. Our doors will remain closed until these profanation and secular­isation have been pulverised by the Emperor of heaven. Unto him shall the gathering of the people be. To thy tents O Israel …” Rev Chris Okotie.